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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET<br/>
<span class=large>ISAIAH</span>
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CHAPTER 51
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In the last days, the Lord shall comfort Zion and gather Israel—The redeemed shall come to Zion amid great joy.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="isa/51/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Ne. 8: 1 (1-25)."><span class='smallcaps'>Hearken</span></a> to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>: look unto the <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/51/1b" mark="b" type="F" title="IE These are defined in the next verse as Abraham and Sarah; TG Rock.">rock</a> <i>whence</i> ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit <i>whence</i> ye are digged.
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Look unto <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/51/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="3 Ne. 20: 27.">Abraham</a> your <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/51/2b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Family, Eternal.">father</a>, and unto Sarah <i>that</i> bare you: for I called him <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/51/2c" mark="c" type="A" title="Gen. 12: 1; Abr. 1: 16.">alone</a>, and <sup>d</sup><a href="isa/51/2d" mark="d" type="A" title="Gen. 24: 1.">blessed</a> him, and increased him.
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For the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> shall <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/51/3a" mark="a" type="C" title="Zech. 1: 17 (14-17); TG Comfort.">comfort</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/51/3b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Zion.">Zion</a>: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/51/3c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Earth, Destiny of; TG Earth, Renewal of; TG Eden.">Eden</a>, and her desert like the <sup>d</sup><a href="isa/51/3d" mark="d" type="A" title="Ezek. 36: 35.">garden</a> of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
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&#182; Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/51/4a" mark="a" type="F" title="OR teaching, doctrine; TG God, Law of.">law</a> shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.
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My righteousness <i>is</i> near; my <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/51/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 85: 9; Isa. 46: 13.">salvation</a> is gone forth, and mine arms shall <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/51/5b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Judge.">judge</a> the people; the <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/51/5c" mark="c" type="A" title="Isa. 60: 9; 1 Ne. 22: 4; 2 Ne. 10: 8, 20 (20-22); 2 Ne. 29: 7; D&C 133: 8.">isles</a> shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust.
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Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/51/6a" mark="a" type="Q" title="HEB be dispersed; Ps. 102: 26 (25-27); 2 Pet. 3: 10 (10-12).">vanish</a> away like smoke, and the earth shall <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/51/6b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB decay.">wax</a> <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/51/6c" mark="c" type="A" title="Isa. 50: 9.">old</a> like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
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&#182; Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/51/7a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Heart.">heart</a> <i>is</i> my law; <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/51/7b" mark="b" type="A" title="Matt. 10: 28.">fear</a> ye not the <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/51/7c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Reproach.">reproach</a> of <sup>d</sup><a href="isa/51/7d" mark="d" type="A" title="D&C 30: 11.">men</a>, neither be ye afraid of their <sup>e</sup><a href="isa/51/7e" mark="e" type="B" title="TG Reviling.">revilings</a>.
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For the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/51/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 50: 9.">moth</a> shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
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&#182; Awake, awake, put on <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/51/9a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Strength.">strength</a>, O arm of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old.  <i>Art</i> thou not it that hath cut Rahab, <i>and</i> wounded the <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/51/9b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ps. 74: 13; Isa. 27: 1.">dragon</a>?
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<i>Art</i> thou not it which hath <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/51/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 14: 21.">dried</a> the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/51/10b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 35: 8 (8-10).">way</a> for the <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/51/10c" mark="c" type="A" title="Isa. 35: 9 (9-10).">ransomed</a> to pass over?
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Therefore the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/51/11a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Israel, Restoration of.">redeemed</a> of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> shall <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/51/11b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Israel, Gathering of.">return</a>, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/51/11c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Joy.">joy</a> <i>shall be</i> upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; <i>and</i> sorrow and <sup>d</sup><a href="isa/51/11d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Mourning.">mourning</a> shall flee away.
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I, <i>even</i> I, <i>am</i> he that comforteth you: who <i>art</i> thou, that thou shouldest be <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/51/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 56: 4; Jer. 1: 8 (7-8).">afraid</a> of a man <i>that</i> shall die, and of the son of man <i>which</i> shall be made <i>as</i> grass;
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And <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/51/13a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Apathy.">forgettest</a> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/51/13b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Creation.">earth</a>; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy?  and where <i>is</i> the fury of the oppressor?
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The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/51/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Zech. 9: 11.">pit</a>, nor that his bread should fail.
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But I <i>am</i> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God, that divided the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/51/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Ne. 4: 2.">sea</a>, whose waves roared: The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts <i>is</i> his name.
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And I have put my <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/51/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Ne. 33: 10 (10-11); Moro. 10: 27 (27-29); D&C 1: 24.">words</a> in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou <i>art</i> my people.
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&#182; Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/51/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 25: 15.">cup</a> of his <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/51/17b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG God, Indignation of.">fury</a>; thou hast drunken the dregs of the <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/51/17c" mark="c" type="A" title="Zech. 12: 2.">cup</a> of trembling, <i>and</i> wrung <i>them</i> out.
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<i>There is</i> none to guide her among all the sons <i>whom</i> she hath brought forth; neither <i>is there any</i> that taketh her by the hand of all the sons <i>that</i> she hath brought up.
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These <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/51/19a" mark="a" type="A" title="Zech. 4: 14 (11-14); Rev. 11: 3 (3-12).">two</a> <i>things</i> are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee?  desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?
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Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/51/20a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR antelope.">wild</a> bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, the rebuke of thy God.
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&#182; Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:
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Thus saith thy Lord the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and thy God <i>that</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/51/22a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 50: 34.">pleadeth</a> the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, <i>even</i> the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:
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But I will put it into the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/51/23a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 25: 17.">hand</a> of them that <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/51/23b" mark="b" type="A" title="3 Ne. 20: 28.">afflict</a> thee; which have said to thy soul, <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/51/23c" mark="c" type="A" title="Isa. 52: 2.">Bow</a> down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.
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